La belle écuyère

Original title: Chad Hanna

1940
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1h 28m

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Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, and Dorothy Lamour in La belle écuyère (1940)

A country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany, the star equestrian rider. Later, he falls in love with Caroline, another runaway who becomes the circus' new barebac... Read allA country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany, the star equestrian rider. Later, he falls in love with Caroline, another runaway who becomes the circus' new bareback rider.A country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with Albany, the star equestrian rider. Later, he falls in love with Caroline, another runaway who becomes the circus' new bareback rider.

Director
- Henry King
Writers
- Walter D. Edmonds
- Nunnally Johnson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Director
- Henry King
Writers
- Walter D. Edmonds
- Nunnally Johnson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Even though she had to do several scenes with them, Linda Darnell was allergic to horses.

Goofs
About 20 mins into the movie, when Dorothy Lamour is talking to Henry Fonda from the steps of her wagon while wearing a robe, how she wears the robe changes from shot to shot. From the side view she has it discretely wrapped around her. From the font view she has it pulled tight and slightly open all the way to the waist, and is not wearing anything underneath it. In the final front view as Linda Darnell enters the scene, she has it very loosely wrapped and is wearing a slip underneath it.

Quotes
Fred Shepley: [Talking to Albany] Any thing in pants, huh!
Chad Hanna: Hey Joe! What's happen there, Albany ain't married to him is she?
Joe Duddy: No! But you'd think so the way fight, wouldn't you.

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Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978)

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6/10

Not one of Fonda's better films

Henry Fonda plays an "aw shucks" country boy who falls in love with Albany Yates (Dorothy Lamour) in the circus... before later marrying Caroline (Linda Darnell), who has also joined the circus.

The movie was okay, not great. I've enjoyed Fonda more in other roles (e.g. 12 Angry Men), and I've been appreciating Linda Darnell more as I see more movies that feature her, but here her role was weaker (or it was just a poorly written script). I liked the Technicolor and got a kick out of Jane Darwell's role as a feisty fat lady. In one scene she stands holding a rifle, making a man promise that he won't bother the circus team again. He does. She then hits him over the head with the rifle, knocking him out, then says, "Now I believe him!"

This is basically the price Henry Fonda had to pay to star in "Grapes of Wrath". He had to agree to be a contract player at Fox and he occasionally got stuck with this kind of role in this kind of film. But he did make the most of it like the trooper he was.